The UK government is sneaking through a vast extension to pornographic prohibition. It’s so vaguely worded that it could cover 50 Shades of Grey (if filmed), Game of Thrones or Florentine statues. Jonathan Lindsell reports
A recent study of Vladimir Putin’s gangster tendencies has been suppressed: not by the Kremlin, but by a UK academic publisher living in fear of England’s libel laws, writes Padraig Reidy
EU officials should have seen it coming. In December, the Advocate General of the ECJ was already of the opinion that the DRD constituted “a serious interference” with privacy, Binoy Kampmark writes
Journalists Dimos Verikios said there is a “dictatorship of the gay minority” and gay people should be “treated” by members of Golden Dawn, writes Christos Syllas
An Index event on freedom of assembly, in association with Sussex University Politics Society
The British government is making it easier for those in power to break the law – and it’s using a fantasy about left-wing pressure groups to justify it, Alex Stevenson reports
Playwright and author Meltem Arikan guides you on an exploration of a corruption scandal enveloping a country, by imagining the UK as Turkey
Padraig Reidy argues that there is a downside to the justified urge to uphold the immaculate status of the child; it comes in the form of the ever-returning moral panic.
Kurdish broadcaster Roj TV has lost another battle in its long and controversial fight to stay on air, writes Georgia Hussey.
Punitive psychiatric treatment is returning to Russia. This is a throw back to Soviet times, with opposition activists condemned by a kangaroo court to bogus psychiatric treatment courses, with no chance of release until a doctor says so, Alastair Sloan writes